Abstract

FONTES 54 includes an extensive discussion of Hogarth and Rouquet and a full text version of the German translation of Rouquet’s explanatory descriptions of Hogarth’s prints (first published in French as a separate work, London 1746): "Briefe des Herrn Rouquet an einen seiner Freunde in Paris worinn er ihm die Küpferstiche des Herrn Hogarths erklärt". Lessing and Voß added these descriptions to the second German edition of Hogarth’s "Analysis of Beauty", deeming them useful for German readers as well as for French ones. The full text of a letter from Rouquet to Hogarth, dated 22 March 1753 is included. Also considered is Rouquet’s "L’État des arts en Angleterre" (Paris 1755; English translation: London 1755).